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The Russellville Democrat., 1887-10-05
LAWRENCE RUSSELL,
REAL ESTATE AGENT.


Will sell, rent, pay taxes. and manage prop
crty for presidents. ALI information free.
Terms free to snow property.
/ will advertise property placed in my
hands, and II the property is not sold the ad :
vertising will cost owners of property abso-
now have for sale the Following described
property, to-wit:
TOWN PROPERTY.
residence and six lots located on Oak
street. The house has four rooms. There Is u
good well. n small orchard of peaches and
plums. Price low.
desirable residence aud two lots on OAK
street, near business part of town. The resi-
dence contains four rooms and there is good
well on the place
6. W. Walkers residence and three lots on
Main street in west Russelville, At this
place is u deep well of the finest sulphur wa
ter. The water contains MEDICINAL proper
ties and is superior TO that found in many
sulphur springs OF this and adjoining states
frequentcd by heal seekers.
A two story house and three lots, with good
we'll in West Russellyille.
A choice Block, containing twelve lots, To-
Gated on Russell street, between Mulberry
A residence with stack chimney and two
rooms; also lots 10. II and IL, in block IL. in
Lukcr's addition to the town OF Russcliville.
A good well, crib, stable, some peach and
plum trees. Price $3.50. on time.
COUNTRY PROPERTY.
I'M. Turner's place miles n. E. OF RUSSELL
vile on the Dover and Lewisburg road A
residence with 100 acres of land, 20 in cultiva-
ton. fine well OF water, small orchard,
etc. Price $4,000
A river bottom farm and residence, located
ten miles south east of Russellyille, on the
Arkansas river. The house is a good one.
One hundred and fifty acres of river bottom
land, one hundred and forty in cultivation; a
good well, and the place is now renting for
$3.50 per year. Price S27.50 per acre.
splendid farm 81 miles west OF RUSSELL
vile on the Illinois Bayou. The tract con
sists OF 200 acres. half upland and half bayou
bottom. There are 1872 acres in cultivation.
On the said tract are four good box houses.
good cribs, barns and stables, one we'll with
an abundant supply OF water. and an orchard
of apples and peaches. VIII sell at slf per
acre.
The residence and farm of samuel Wells, :
miles southeast OF RussellViiic. 50 acres OF
land. part OF same creek bottom. 30 acres In
cultivation, good well and outbuildings. VIII
sell on time.
40 acres Of good creek and river bottom land,
located 81 miles west of Russellvtllc, about
acres cleared, on remainder of land good
timber. Cash price 800. On time Sl2.50 per
acre.
Residence and farm mile north Of Russell
vile, 40 acres of good upland, is acres in cul-
tfvation, au orchard and good we'll. Price
$3.50
In addition TO the above, have town lots
ranging in price from SIS 10 $50.
Persons desiring information will receive
the same free by addressing me at Russell
VILE, Pope County, Arkansas.
WHENCE RUSSELL.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-10-05

HEYWoon,S MINSTRELs.

Go TO see Heywood's Celebrated
Ministries Friday night at Luker & Da-
Wis Han. Reserved seat tickets for
sale at w. G.. Weimer's drug store.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-10-05
Come 10 Dinner.

We give all you eau eat, good square
meal, regardless OF the high price Of
coffee. Come and dine.
oct. 3. J. s. CHuRcH q Co.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-10-05
Fresh Oysters.

Anyone wishing fresh oysters for
Saturdays must leave their order by
Thursday. j. 5. CHURCH a. Co.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-10-05

Ladies Come and Get a Hat.
We have a fine lot of ladies' winter
hats. We will sell cheap for cash
oct. 3. j. S. CHURCH a. Co.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-10-05

Machinery will do almost any
thing, and what machinery can't do
a woman can with haifpin.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-10-05

Eggs ana Chickens Wanted.
We pay the highest market price
for eggs, chickens and country pro-
duce. Come and see us.
oct. ). j. s. CHURCH 81 Co.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-10-05

The dramatic season has opened
at Little Rock.
WHEN you are eonstipateds with loss
81 appetite, headache, take one OF DR.. j.
HI McLean's Little Liver and Kidney
PiIlets. They are pleasant TO take and
Will cure you. rs cents a vail.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-10-05

a good hotel with about fifteen rooms,
on a prominent corner III Russerville.
Apply TO y. 4. SHINN.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-10-05

Take Quinine, and suffer from
deafness and nervous prostration, all
your lives. Take Bolling's Cherokee
Chill Cure, and be a new man, with no
aches, pains or regrets. Sold by W..
G.. Weimer.
The Russellville Democrat., 1887-10-05
New United Monster Shows.

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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-18
ANorth Carolina Jewel Mine

Some years ago Edison, the electric
wizard, was convinced that platinum ex-
listed in North Carolina. He sent Wilt
am Earl Hidden, an accomplished min
eralogist, ia search of it. Prof. Hidden
little knew at the time how full of results
to him that pursuit of platinum would be.
He could not find the desired mineral,
bat he found something far better. Be
ing in Alexander county, quiet part of
the state, many miles from railway, he
was directed by j. A. ID. Stephenson TO
gem-bearing ground, and looking little
more narrowly, found some of the gems.
He purchased some land, returned to
Edison and reported his vain quest of
platinum, then came back to North Caro-
lima. He went to work to develop his
mine. Sinking a shaft in simple way,
he gradually made the opening larger I'M
til specifically the mine presented the
aspect of a stone quarry. Out of this
rude pit in the earth were taken unnum-
bered gems-one hitherto unknown. To
this j. Lawrence Smith of st. Louis, an
eminent scientist, gave Hidden's name
and "Hiddenite," the equivalent of the
diamond in value, became instantly the
fashion. It's tender-tinted green crys-
tails, its intense hardness and its new
beauties when cut, were only some of its
charms. From the day of its discovery
to the present it has been a hopeful task
to supply the demand for it. Every Hid
denite found is already purchased long
in advance. But strange as is this flash
ing green miracle of the earth, the place
of its birth is still stranger. The labor
ers who are working in the mine handle
sheir picks with the greatest care. They
are on the watch for pockets" Pos
sibly for an hour the digging goes on
and no pocket" is struch. Presently
the pick goes into an opening, with ter
der fingers the earth is partially removed
and finally the LINER feels with his hands
every portion of the walls of the opening.
It may happen that his search is in vain,
but it is oftener the case that his fingers
touch little crystals that are so imbed-
ded in the sides of the pocket that their
points project outward. They are care
fully picked out. Perhaps all are beryls,
perhaps there are dozen kinds of gems,
or yet again it may be that there are only
Hiddenites. Sometimes gems worth
hundreds of dollars are thus taken from
pna
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-18
Tnhnccn In England.

II must be an odd sound in the ears of
most English farmers, says the News, of
London, to be told that the late heavy
gales have done SERIOUS damage" to our
growing fields of tobacco. English to-
bacco growing, however, though as yet in
its EXTREMIST infancy, and necessarily
hampered by the strict conditions on
which, in the interests of the revenue, it
is alone permitted to be carried on, is al
ready fact. We may add that it is a
fact of considerable promise. Last year,
for the first time since 1881, when tobac
co growing in Ireland was finally prohib-
tied and the stocks of Irish tobacco were
bought up and destroyed by the govern
ment, tobacco figured in our inland reve-
nue. returns, though yielding to the ex-
chequer only the modest sum of e14.
There we're last year only twenty-four
licensed cultivators spread over fourteen
counties; there are this year forty-6ve.
Last year, moreover, the cultivation
was begun very late, though the trihing
amount then paid must not be taken
as an indication of the quantity grown,
of which the greater part is of course
stored for maturing from the experiment
tai field on the estate of Sir Edward Birk
beck at Horstead, in Norfolk, it is report
ed that, as yet, neither cigars nor leaf
tobacco have been smoked, they not being
sufficiently matured, but a few cigarettes
have been tried. When they came from
the manufacturer these were pronounced
every strong" But during the last three
months they are stated to have become
much mildsr, and are now quite smok-
able" Notwithstanding many mistakes,
Sir Edward, as we learn from the interest
ing report of his agent, Mr.. Michael Fall
con, addressed to The Field, has been en-
couraged by the luxuriance of the growth
to make an experiment this year on a
larger scale The varieties grown by
him are those known to smokers and the
trade as Kentucky, ""Yirgiaian, 10y elbow
Prior" and Big Frederic" The offer of
a prize of 100 gulneas for the best speci-
menof the homegrown plant by the tobac-
co-trade section of the London chamber
of commerce has no doubt given an i'm
petus this year to the experiment; but.
considering the novelty of the enterprise,
and the many conditions on which its
success depends, it i. rather 6ishearten-
ing to learn that our revenue department
considers that by the close of the present
season the cultivation of tobacco in Eng
land will have had fair trial II Is an
ominous amour cement that Kentish
grower has been callel upon either to des-
troy or pay the duty on his last ysar's
crop, with the alternative of transferring
it to bonded warehouse, presumptively
unified for the delicate process of ma
turing. The interests of English agri-
culture bespeak a more generous consid-
Grafton for those who sre engaged in an
experiment so important and already so
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-18
FARM NOTES.

The droppings should not be allowed
to accumulate in the hen houses.
Whenever farmer gets labor-saving
implement for himself, let him think if
something to save his wife from kitchen
labor can not also be secured.
Wood lands are us ally those which are
most benefited by the application of wood
ashes; hence the latter should always be
utilized and not allowed to lie around the
yard in unsightly heaps.
Something can be done toward making
pigs profitable by breeding and selling
them young without fattening. The great
est expense of keeping hogs Is avoided
if they are sold young and before it be-
comes necessary to fatter them.
An excellent mixture of hay for cattle,
all classes of stock is oue-thirdclover hay
with timothy and redtop, which is much
better than either one alone, as the mix
tHre is more complete in food elements.
1t should be fed with an allowance of
ground grain also.
The fence corners are the pest-holes of
the farm. From them spring nearly all
the weed seeds and undesirable grasses
which are scattered over the fields. Rail
fences are expensive on account of the
ground they occupy and the weeds they
protect. If necessary, the hoe should be
brought into requisition to clean out the
spaces along the fence.
# is only matter of time for the pas
ture to run out if it be not MANFRED. You
can net continue to obtain milk, beef,
mutton and wool from the pasture and
give nothing back in return. Yet pas
lures are used annually on some farms
with 70 effort made to recuperate them,
and it will surely end in exhaustion of the
soil and disappearance of the grass.
Trimming an apple tree does not mean
that one must go into the orchard and
hack away with an ak and saw simply to
cut away a certain proportion of wood,
but the trees should be evenly trimmed,
and no limbs removed except such as
may benefit the tree by being cut off.
Where limb has commenced to decay, it
should be removed, as it may be caused
by disease. Especially is this necessary
with pear trees, which are subject to
blight.
The cabbage worm has done great
damage this season, and as yet no RENE
dy has been found to prevent such ravag
es without lnJur1ng the cabbages. Hero
sene, carbolic acid, etc, impregnate the
cabbage with an odor, though they may
destroy the worms. The safest method
would be united action in killing the
white butterfly, which is the parent of the
cabbage worm. This could be done if de-
termined upon, and would be cheaper
than applying remedies.
The difficulty of curing fodder corn in
its immature state, says an exchange,
tempts many farmers into permitting it
to become too ripe before cutting. The
stage of Towering is considered the best
time to cut other forage crops, and corn
appears to be no exception. The rule
very generally employed among expert
enced growers is to cut fodder corn for
drying in the carly blossom of the tassel.
At whatever stage the fodderis harvested,
it is wise to have the crop cut before be-
ing touched by frost.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-18
The Practical Joker in Canada.
Toronto Glob'

The following story has its headquart-
ers at Clinton: On one of the fine days
of last week a lady came down town to
do some shopping. She brought her
"yearling" in baby carriage, which she
left at a certain dry goods store while
she went to make her purchases. One
of the clerks in the store, who knew the
mother well, thought to play a joke. So
while she was busy he went out and
wheeled the carriage and BABY into an
adjoining store. Though he was not
aware of it the lady had been watching
his manouvers, and when she was ready
to go home she did so without carriage
or babe. Shortly after "bubby" kicked
up high jinks, and the joker clerk was
sent for to take him away. And as the
mother was gone he was obliged to weeel
baby home, the youngster bowling at the
top of his voice, nearly the whole of the
way, and, advertising the situation, much
to the annoyance of the clerk. When he
reached the gate the mother came out,
and her exclamation was: "Dear me, l
forgot parcel, did 2" and as she saw
the youngster: "On, 1 thought it was a
spool ot twist had forgotten" 1t was
worse than spool of twist on the clerk.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-18
BiSmHrck'S Wife

New York World: Princess Bismark,
about whom, notwithstanding the fame
of her husband, but little has been written
Is very different kind of person from
Nine. Rouzier. A little over go years of
age, with snow white hair, gaunt figure,
and high cheek bones, she is almost as
tall woman as her husband is a man.
Her face Is, however, lightened up by a
very kindly expression, and she is very
popular with those who know her. Very
decided in her opinions and in her lasts,
she resembles the Chancellor in refusing
to brook contradiction. Like that of the
Empress Augusta, her voice is pitched in
somewhat high and loud key, her con-
versatlon Is of a most amusing and viva
clous kind, and she has vast fund of
stories and anecdotes which she is ex-
ceedlngly fond of relating. On certain
subjects, however, the Princess has the
most peculiar notions, which are not al
ways agreeable to her friends. Thus, for
instance, she Is perfectly crazy on the
subject of draughts, and the moment she
sets foot IN the house, no matter if it is
the hottest day of summer, she commands
that every window and door in the place
be closed. Every year she makes point
OF spending few weeks at Hamburg,
and on these occasions she is want to
spend much of her time with Baroness
Willy Rothschild, the composer of that
pretty French song, "Si vous n'avez rien
ne dire" 1t is asserted that the sub
ject of their interminabie conversations
is music, an art of which the Princess is
immensely fond: at any rate their discus
slons are quite as long and as noisy as
Wagner opera. The princess complains
much of delicate health and of dyspepsia,
and the Chancellor's physician, the IA
nous DR.. Schweninger, is frequently
summoned SO give advice, which, how
ever, is never followed-another point in
which she resembles her husband. Her
favorite beverage is welliced champagne,
which she absolutely refused to renounce,
notwithstanding all DIR. Schweninger has
to say on the subject. A most devoted wife
and an affectio2ats mother, and is es-
pecially devoted to her second son, Count
Bill, as he is called in the family. "Bill."
who is employed in the civil service of
the Prussioap Government, is the very
image of his father physically, although
not intellectually. The most touching
relations exist between the old lady and
her husband, and one of the most pleas
ing sights imaginable is to watch the
Difference and gentle courtesy which the
Chancellor invariably displays towards
his wife, and the undisguished admiration
of the latter for her famous husband.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-18

Walton IN soil and animal farming of the
world, vas founded in 1888. Its motto
was Practice and Science" In 1910
England had organized Board of Apri-
culture, of which Sir John Sinclair was
president and Arthur Young secretary.
There were in this year eighty-one agri-
cultural societies in regular working or
der, and of one of these the Badenach
and Strathspey Society, the celebrated
Duchess of Gordon was president.
The first Agricultural society formed
In America was .'The Philadelphia (Pa.)
Society for Promoting Agriculture"
among the awards of this society in 1890
was gold medal to Mr.. Mathesou for
the best sample and greatest quantity of
| cheese.
The first agricultural society ever in
corporated in America was the Society
TOT the Promotion of Agriculture eff
south Carolina, established in 1885
It's OBJECTS included, among others, the
institution of farm for experiments,
and the importation and distribution of
products suited to the climate of that
State.
In New York society for the Ad-
vancemeut of Agriculture" was incorpor-
ated IN 1871, but it died at the age of ten
years.
The Society for the promotion of Use
full Arts, IN which agriculture was first
named, established in 1904, published
| seven volumes of Transactions previous
10 1915. The New York State Agricultur-
al Society held its first regular fair in
ls4o, the admission being twelve and one
| half cents
Ia Massachusetts, in 1903. the trustees
| of the Massachusetts, Society for Promot-
ing Agriculture, offered among others.
premium of one hundred dollars, or the
socIety's gold medal for cheap and
effectual method of destroying the canker
worm. From the beginnings thus noted
| agriculture, horticulture, pomology,
forestry and Horticulture have gradually
increased. Agricultural societies Offering
| premiums are found in every State, and
most of the Territories. Popular inter
est Is especially active in agricultural
societies in the West, and is constantly
increasing in the South The officia. list
of State, district and county agricultural
fairs, held this year, not including sup
| Elementary lists, shows a list of S37 fairs
held this year, the dates occurring prin.
clpally Ill September and October. The
| four States holding the largest number
of fairs in 1887 are, Illinois, 80; Iowa and
Ohio, 80 each, and Indiana, 81. The pre-
m1ums at the State fairs of these States
| aggregate an immense sum yearly. It is
safe to say the agricultural societies of
the United States have exercised a great
er influence for the advancement of agri-
culture than any other means.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-18
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN,
MIDSUMMER MADNESS.
BCRDETTE.

Bring hlth er, bring hither my red bandbox;
Bring hither my bandbox green,
And my bandbox brown from London town,
And my box OF silver sheen.
"And it's oh for my trunk OF leather tough,
And my trunk of oak ribbed zine:
And my trunk SO tough Of canvas stuff,
That will bulge but will not shrink.
"Oh pile them high with the robes wear,
Till their lids they overflow;
Ny lord he will stare, and exc he viii swear,
But in they will have to GO"
"Oh waly. waly, my layde fair,
Now whittier and will We tiee."
ITO Mount Saint Bushall of WorrfAncair
On Conyile-by -the-sea."
They have seized her boxes one and all,
In the Tavern Lafitte de Kidd,
And loudly for help the porters call,
As they stack them up In entry and hail,
And pile them high against balkhead and wall,
But wherever they stow them, great and small,
Far out of her reach they are slid.
Her room is a cell fathom long,
Her bed is e thing of fears,
Where all night long the noiseless song
OF the wingless bird she hears.
And her lord she lies in the hallway lone,
On sleep destroying cot,
Where she hears hin groan in wrathtul tone
Its (HushD Its" csh! HushD- hot!
And all this time in their home in town,
A mansion OF cold gray stone,
There are peaceful giooms in seventeen rooms,
Where the burglar sleeps alone.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-18
A Desperate Adventure.

man named Pailler was condemned to
four years. imprisonment for having stol
en- $4,000 from the Societe Generate al
Paris. His ,escapade was peculiar and
his adventures not devoid of interest
He was q messenger in the bank, and af-
ter having resolved to 'bolt" with his
booty he went to the Temple and bought
a plasterer's blouse. He then hailed a
cab, got into it, changed his messengers
livery, and having donned the blouse he
disappeared amid labyrinth of streets,
to the bewilderment of the cabman,
whom he left waiting outside house.
His next movement was to take
a friend of his who was concierge and
the friends wife on a pleasure trip
to the sunny south. The trio got through
a fair share of money at Marsilles, where
by crossing the blue Ligurian sea they
entered Italy. Having spent few
idyllic month sin land of unlimited sun
shine, PaiIIer left his Paris friends and
betook himself in an evil hour to Monaco.
There he was hail follow well met with a
band.of affable and fashionable sharpsr.,
who took him in hand for the purpose of
teaching him on, and ended by easing
him of about 81 500 while he was lying
drunk ana uEuSkSu- hAbcE hIis AMER
resolved to leave the haunts of men as
much as he could, and he accordingly set
up as an aDchorite in lonely tower at
ventimiglia on the Riylora de Ponente.
In his tower in the sunlit Corniche
the hermit kept good lookout for such
unpleasant people as gendarmes, police
men, or probable detectives; but growing
tired of his isolation, he returned to one
of the large Italian towns, whence he
dispatched $500 to his wife by stray ac-
quaintance, who went to Paris and got
through the moDey quite comfortably in
the cafes and other agreeabls establish
ments of the gay capital Still haunted
by the fear of policemen, Pailler chang
ed his domicile once more and fed to
Barcelona, where he was robbed by a
woman of his remaining rsuleaux of gold.
At last, worn out with hunger and priva-
ton, the thief gave himself ur to the
authorities at Barcelona and was sent to
Paris.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-11-18
Two LueSy Guesses.

A San Francisco newspaper offered
5000 to the one who would correctly guess
the number of types in a jar, exhibited
in the Exposition there. Two men were
successful, naming the correct number
"a, 200. How they came TO hit on that
number is interesting. One Of them once
guessed the number of shot in a jar about
the same size as the one con-
tanning the type. There were
$4,000. He thought there was one-third
as many type as shot, and SO divided
$1,000 by three, and, as he said, added a
little TO make If even" The other man
saw a crowd around the jar. and felt in
his pocket for pencil with which to
write his number. He couldn't find one,
and moved on; but aftervard, feeling
strongly impslled TO make guess. felt
again for pencil. and found an old lot
terry ticket, OF which was the number
"a 200. He borrowed pencil, put down
the number and won 500.